Soho Mint - A World First!

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The titles in the Library are are intended to suggest suitable further reading, rather than trying to be exhaustive. The following titles have (nearly) all been recently released, and should be available at bookstores and from on-line suppliers. Those books which are out of print can probably be obtained from the second-hand trade without too much difficulty.

● A Lost Landscape - Matthew Boulton's Gardens at Soho. Phillada Ballard, Val Loggie, Shena Mason

● Druid Tokens - Eighteenth Century Token Notes from Matthew Boulton’s Letters.

C R Hawker

● Good Money - Birmingham Button Makers, the Royal Mint, and the Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821. George Selgin

● Les Monnerons - Histoire D’un Monnayage. Philippe Bouchet

● Lunatick Astronomy: The Astronomical Activities of the Lunar Society. Andrew P B Lound

● Matthew Boulton. H W Dickinson

● Matthew Boulton - A Revolutionary Player. Ed: Malcolm Dick

● Matthew Boulton and the Art of Making Money. Eds: Richard Clay, Sue Tungate

● Matthew Boulton - Selling what all the world desires. Ed: Shena Mason

● Matthew Boulton’s Trafalgar Medal. Nicholas Goodison

● The East India Company and its Coins. Peter R Thompson

● The Great Silver Manufactory - Matthew Boulton & the Birmingham Silversmiths 1760-1790. Eric Delieb & Michael Roberts

● The Hardware Man's Daughter - Matthew Boulton and his 'Dear Girl.' Shena Mason

● The Lunar Men - The Friends Who Made The Future. Jenny Uglow

● The Soho Mint and the Industrialisation of Money. Richard G Doty

● The Token Book. Paul & Bente Withers

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